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One last ai boost, sorry. 🤪 I've found that treating ai contributions as if they came from another person is really helpful- just because I vibe coded or AI assisted something doesn't mean it is exempt from my normal review process. If I give the agent's PR the same scrutiny and feedback I do one of my junior devs, the amount of slop decreases by an order of magnitude. Whether it helps my juniors write less slop, or causes my seniors to produce more slop, that says much more about the person than the AI.

One sad thing about all this politicizing of AI is that so many people put themselves in the "AI good" or "AI bad" camps, when it's always both- Good for what? Bad for what? It's not blanket one or the other. (I really do appreciate JBs nuance here- y'all are some of the few that don't just pulpit pound from one side or the other) Brandon Sanderson has a really good keynote called "We Are The Art," that hits this really well- if the intended goal is the output of a thing, AI can be really great. If the goal is what developing the thing creates in you, not so much. Sometimes we need to be the art for it to be properly appreciated and trusted. Other times we just want a cool thing. Like Chris's music- I can't get enough of that. (We seriously need an album of these- I still play "Chris is in love with another man's van" on the reg) And other music I'd pay for, I'm actually paying for their expertise and lifetime experience being a creator, not necessarily the song itself.

Mystery t9 boost 😁 All this AI blocking reminds me of the yearly hacktoberfest drama ratcheted to 11. We've relied so long on a base level of quality being baked in by virtue of the learning/effort curve being high enough that people wanting to contribute are also putting that kind of time into their code, and thus more likely to have better code. (Always a terrible assumption IMHO) Offer a bunch of people free T-shirts or the ability to outsource to AI, then the slop increases. (whether that's outsourcing to an LLM or Anonymous Indians, it kinda feels similar tbh) Blocking hacktoberfest or AI altogether is just throwing out the baby with the bathwater in my opinion. Enough people are being bad to the maintainers that we can't have nice things I guess. 🤪

Vaultwarden user over here- it's the only one I've found that has the wife approval factor while also allowing us to share creds with both each other and family/friends. (Also handy for securing and time/access limiting random stuff like when I needed to send my boss a scan of my passport) I also used it to force myself to learn and practice proper backup and HA hygiene. Been running 6 years with 0 fire drills and four 9s. If bitwarden proper goes south enough to make vaultwarden not feasible anymore I might consider a proton, but I'd probably be more likely to maintain my own vaultwarden-compatible client than store my passwords on somebody else's hardware.

(2001 space odesy boost 🙏) have you guys come across a rotary subwoofer in your journeys? It can hit 1 herz 🤯. I know Chris has an ultimate home theater video that may need a part 3 🤞

Question for you guys (and anyone in the community that wants to boost in)- do you have any preferred methods of dealing with burnout? I used to get rejuvenated by doing something weird with my homelab, joining in on a JB challenge, going for a hike, or letting my adhd pick a random new hobby for me. But nowadays everything seems to just make it worse. Would love to hear strategies you guys use! (Especially Chris since he's a fellow adhd-er and it seems like we have a lot of similar stressors, at least based on what he has shared on air)

I know it’s only ever played in the bootleg of the show, but my favorite AI song you have made is the “Time Killing Song” you play sometimes during the pre-show break. Can you share your Suno profiles somewhere? I think it would be fun to use the “College Accapella Group” profile.

I'm in a similar boat to PJ- as a general rule, I don't fully integrate anything into my core/day to day production until I can own it and run it on my own hardware. (Or vps I control) Probably have been listening to Chris's defined networking ad reads for too long. 😆 But, that being said, one thing that is handy is that the openai api spec is quickly turning into S3 of the AI world. So in the interim, even with the cloud models, I can run them through a proxy that exposes them to my systems as a generic openai compatible model, and to my systems it doesn't matter where the model resides, and once I get a local model that performs well enough I can just swap it out and start integrating it more centrally into my production environment. Doesn't mean I won't play with it and learn it until then to be something I CAN rely on for production use. It just won't be something I WILL rely on until that point. (all caps just for emphasis since fountain doesn't support italics. Not yelling or anything)

Here is a little extra for the holidays. I think a Holiday Home Lab special is a great idea and I will be submitting mine as soon as I can. Maybe you can include an award for longest running server?

I heard a while back mention of TalosOS and it intrigued me. I haven’t had a chance to play with it until now. A need arose for a dev Kubernetes cluster so I figured I would try it. It’s stupid how easy Talos makes it. What was originally a week’s worth of effort was done in like 5 minutes. I will be playing around more with it but very happy so far. As always, love the show. Thanks for all you do!

Been a minute so here’s a little extra. Also, I really like the talk about stack monitoring. One thing that took me forever to realize is that Prometheus actually has a way to dynamically add nodes to the scrape config. So instead of manually adding every host in the main config, you point to a wildcard pattern and then create a simple json file per host. Best part: no need to restart Prometheus when adding a host. An Ansible playbook’s dream.

Let’s be clear. Nobody likes listening to ads. If you say you do, I’ve got a good therapist I can introduce you to. That being said, I will listen to thousands of hours of ads if it means that you get paid. (Even in the membership feed if need be) My only ask is that they don’t just randomly pop up in the middle of a segment.

Just wanted to share a little Linux and self hosted success story- thanks to what I've learned from the JB crew and community over the last 6 ish years, we were able to migrate off of GCP to a combo of our own infra and a colo, resulting in a monthly savings of the boost amount, but if it was in dollars instead of sats. And all FOSS. 😁 You guys are awesome, thank you! Also, regarding the on-site you guys did at Hadea's clinic- it was super interesting. It's always those small gotchas that you expect to be quick that end up eating up your entire time. 😬 I've experienced similar with one of our sub-companies that specializes in Linux-based home automation for short term rentals. (we call it RoboSTR) On our last install the client wanted to keep their existing chinesium cameras and APs, but plugged into their new HA and router/DVR boxes we installed- everything was going peachy until one of the 4 APs decided that it was going to max out at 4Mbps. Fast forward 6 hours and we ended up just re flashing all of them with openwrt. After that the rest of the networking and camera setup took like 15-20 minutes. Should have done that sooner. 🤪 If you guys end up wanting to do this again for the airbnbs on the way down to SCLE, we'd love to assist if you would find it useful! (At least remotely- we don't have the travel budget to come this year 🫠😞)

Does anyone else have the problem of the boost audio clips slipping into your day to day vernacular? I've accidentally dropped, "they're doing a lot with mayo these days" and "that is a tasty burger" in several conversations without thinking about it and I just called my coworker a rich lobster. 😆 I guess it's just a sign of how integrated JB is in my life. 😁

One thing that gets lost in the license conversation is that as it currently stands, LLMs are just Large License Launderers. One of the great things about copyleft FOSS is that you know that all derivations will continue to benefit humanity by also being FOSS. But as it is now we lose all freedoms as soon as someone makes a proprietary derivation using an agent. "Roll over and take it because they're going to violate your code and the freedoms of your users anyway" isn't a very good stance, and neither is "put up a bunch of useless walls that also violate your users freedoms" 🤪 it just feels silly that the two leading arguments on this subject break foss ethos in different ways. I'd think that if we can get both sides to come to an agreement on an interface to let AI access the code and also respect the license, we could get the best of both worlds. Even if it's just a setting you can give your agent to include or exclude source material that is compatible with the license of your project or something. If you're also writing gpl, go ham! If you're writing proprietary, then you can consciously make the choice on whether or not you'll abide the license. Another benefit to something like that would be that folks at companies that block copyleft deps can actually enjoy all the fun AI stuff we have without worry of getting in trouble. 😁 Of course all of that is easier said than done.

(PS: One tip you may've already thought of- if you are able to plan out your route beforehand, installing/registering all the apps for chargers along your route before you leave makes things WAY easier. Especially for the plug 'n runs. Then all you've got to do is tap/enter stall id for the not as cool ones)

I'd say keep the Tesla chat coming! Always fun to see what's going on on that side of the fence. Totally hear you re chargers. I've gotten to the point where I assume the charger won't work if it's not EvGo, EA, Tesla, or has a perfect score on plugshare. EvGo is currently my favorite- they support plug and run on both Non-Tesla and Tesla. Super clean experience. And they are rolling out NACS!

A journey to get enough sats on here - River for the win as well as Bitcoin ATM's that charge $9 usd for the conversion 🤦. 12533 I hope you can get the Monte Python Holy Hand Grenade clip for this number 🤪. ? Can you compare the price of sats with usd mill ($0.001) and Gold's smallest unit (atoms) - or maybe the microgram price as the current system is even more crazy than the Bitcoin number? This way people can see how inflated the united states dollar has become and the real power of the sat 🤯

+1 for wizarr! It also works for audiobookshelf. ( Brent actually already used mine to create an account on my audiobooks server when I recommended ADHD is awesome.) Super handy for when you want to invite people to all your platforms at once with a single invite code. (Also does Romm if you have rom collections for emulation)

Everytime I hear the break song, it scratches my show tune itch... But then replaces it with another itch of needing JB: the musical. You know, like those old sitcoms that would have a random musical episode.

Guys... You just blew my mind with Nostr. I played around with it back when you first started talking about it, but I don't think I ever really understood what it actually was. I just thought it was activitypub with keys... But I was missing the point. Dunno if I'll use buzz long-term, but I'm setting it up now! And if nothing else this was my eye opening catalyst to connect all the dots. Thank you!

On the audible topic- I kept forgetting to set up my cron jobs years ago, so I was lazy and set up libation and mounted my audiobookshelf drive. It auto downloads and de-drms, follows my naming/folder conventions, and they show up in audiobookshelf within minutes of them showing up in audible. Especially handy for friends and family that want to contribute to audiobookshelf- just add their account to libation and done.

https://fountain.fm/clip/dqidRsWFbLpasGKDfxLi is the "We Call Them Poor" song, but the artist is on X, can you poke them and get them to add the song to wavlake? I dont give my data to Elon or Zuck 😂

Clipped the first song you shared and made a playlist but waiting on Fountain to fix the bug I found 😇. How do we share clips of boosts to add to the list you randomly select from? Became a premium fountener so I can save on the fees once I start zapping the artists $1 a song that I add to said playlist 👊

Hey Chris how do we clip stuff for you? How can we request said clips? 2000+ sat Boosts are us selling our sats to you for your sweet sweet attention. To be unclear is to be unkind. We know you are the kindest Bitcoin Podcaster. Help us help you 🤟 Boba boosted 12533 but wiffed on the monty python clip 😭 you make us want to be better men and women 👊

@npub1mkq63wkt4… and @npub1xg7374us5… my favorite global vs local optima is in game theory. The movie "A Beautiful Mind" shows how John Nash proved with math that doing the best thing for yourself AND the rest of the players was the most optimal move. Not the prisoners delima, but seeing outside the board or the game. The infinite game as Simon Sinek likes to talk about. With that in mind, the best thing in any organization is to treat everyone like they matter as written by the late St. Louis CEO Bob Chapman. Make the work safe and satisfying for the people. Use the growth model of motivation. Still though, if we can pay people with sats for a job well done, lets do that. Thanks for showing up in person to share this conversation! I think its better to keep your value in sats than mills (smallest unit of united states currency) but Ill still hold some of all if I can. Aluminim pop tabs are trading for a mill ($0.001) and if bitcoin is at $100k all three will be equal 🤪

Holy hand grenade clip is okay, but the clip where he miscounts to three would be perferable "one, two, five! - three my lord, oh right three" followed by the explosion 😂. Love the emoji shout out! Thank you. Social media is fine, but how many fans do you need to give you $10 a month to make this worth your time?

Not seeing last weeks baller boost on fountain - what gives? Do you prefer peeps watch on yubtub (mitchells vs machine reference) or fountain? What are the perks for joining the jupiter club for $15 a month? Lastly, what would it take to get you guys to come do a show in St. Louis MO in Vance Crowe's studio?

When bitcoin came online in 2009, there would only be 2.1 quadrillion sats in existence. At the same time, there were 8.9 quadrilion US mills ($0.001) and 169 quadrillion micrograms of gold. A microgram of gold trades today for $0.0001 while a sat is $.0007. Also no bitcoin printing after 2009...

2117 for the 117th episode plus 2000. Heard the Cold Card issue first from TWIB but also diversify and dont trust Canadian companies (que Team America Theme song). Is litigation against Kite in the works?

"Your inner child" back again even though River is holding my bitcoin for up to 5 days 🤬😭. I would love the Holy Hand Grenade clip for past and future 12533 boosts. Sats per doller is fine but 97% of the dollar has been inflated away since its creation. Other people like to compare bitcoin to gold but the smallest unit of gold is an atom. Gold can be traded by gram, but the equivalent amount of sats to atoms in a gram of gold is 3.06 x 10^21 sats which is more than will ever exist 🤦. At the current dollar and aluminum price though, a pop tab and a sat are worth the same 🥳 10 steel bottle caps are also worth a sat at scrap prices if we want get ahead of 2077 Fallout's timeline 🤔. - also you should definitely go on Vance (VCP) podcast in person in St Louis. Let us know what bitcoin bounty we would need to raise to get you there 😈

Have you followed Rich Dad Poor Dad's accountant? Would be interesting to train your tax agent on his book "Tax Free Wealth". His podcast is https://www.wealthability.com/show/

You said you know how much "money" you need to spend more time with your children, but really what lifestyle are you sacrificing to not do that now? Abraham Lincoln said his mother spent an hour with each of her children every day. How much Bitcoin do you need to do that now?

You said in a previous podcast episode you would reply to boosts of 400 sats or more... What is stopping you from doing classes of 12 for IBC? One could be your devils advocate like Judas Iscariat was for Jesus 🤔. Rmemeber that Satan literally entered Judas before the betrayal, later after Satan left him - Judas repented and unallived himself....

AI is like a digital encyclopedia, the first one was published in 78, but before that the sadducees had the Torah, while the pharisees had the entire hebrew scripts. The modern encyclopedia had only been around since 1751. We used to have to pay scholars for multiple data sets, now we just need a phone and internet access. Still need to know how to learn and ask questions.

Episode 111 makes the run time 111 minutes 🥳 . What do you think of the idea of 2000 plus the previous episode to get shout outed? Im boosting 2111 just in case 😉.

Episode 21 was the first episode featuring the music we have all come to count on! Would love an outro with these beats sometime, a mashup of all the music and maybe some Chris quips 🤔.

Oh no maybe we broke your fountain account 😭 missed 9 of us above the 2000 sat mark by my count for 106. As long as people accept sats as payment it wont die. I tried to share the math on gold to bitcoin, The equivalent sats to ever exist equal to atoms of gold would be one grain of sand worth of gold - or 6.86 milligrams - thats how rare bitcoin will be 🤯.

Does 95% of this boost go to the advertisement at the beginning of the show - Progressive? 😂 I missed the youtube live even though Im subscribed and belled 😭🤷‍♂️. Id love for you guys to open with your sweet sweet music like TWIB does, then say "a quick ad to pay the bills" then come back. Feel free to put in as many ads you need to pay said bills 😇.

#TheHolyHandGrenade Boost. 1253, though 12533 may be the price to warrant the clip 🤔. Boosting to drive you to another episode. I believe if we talk about gold and the other currency in their lowest denomination it would help. An atom of gold's worth, the dollar can be infinitely divisible just look at Office Space. A Sat is therefore much more valuable than any current atom of element 🤯

Very interested to hear your thoughts on Veritasiums shots against Monsanto on their most recent youtube post. Perhaps a play by play of every pushback you or Doug might have 🤞😇

Are you still splitting the boosts with your guests, and do you want to do a boost segment for an amount like Chris Fisher does on This Week In Bitcoin?

Can you send half the sats to your guests @npub1xg7374us5… ? Kinda like how Chris does with TWIB... Did you get to talk with Josha Bach on Monday? Looking forward to the next VCP 😇

Bernard is going to https://www.opensauce.com/tickets July 17-19 🥳